Adjustable music rack and holder.



No. 628,3l9; Patented My 4, I899.

J. B. HENRY.

ADJUSTABLE MUSIC BACK AND HOLDER.

(Application filed Jan. 19, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB B. HENRY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADJUSTABLE MUSIC RACK-AND HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,319, dated July 4, 1899. Application filed January 19,1899. Serial No- 702,747. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB B. HENRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Music Racks and Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a convenient, durable, and simple rack and holder for sheet-music or for music in book form to hold said music open at any desired page while the musician is playing upon the piano, organ, or other instrument.

The invention consists in certain detailsof construction and arrangement of parts, as set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

In the drawings like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is aperspective view of myimproved music rack and holder as it appears upon a piano-rack with a sheet of music thereon. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my invention detached, one of the music-holding clamps being shown open and one closed. Fig 3 is a section on line .3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of,

one of the clamps.

0 In the drawings, 4 4 are parallel adjustable side pieces adapted to slide toward or away from each other upon the parallel rods 5 5. Upon each of the side pieces 44 is a clamp 6. Said clamp consists of a bell-crank lever 7,

3 5 pivoted at 8 between ears 9 upon a slide-carrier 10, adapted to slide lengthwise of the side piece 4. .The bell-crank lever 7 is made in three pieces rigidly connected together namely, a handle 11, a cam-shaped locking- 40 piece 12, and a spring-wire finger 13. A fiat spring 14, fast to the slide 10, bears against the flat side 15 of the cam 12 and holds it in either one of the two positions shown. It is evident that the clamps 6 6 may be pushed 5 along the side pieces 4 4 to any desired position thereon, and the side pieces 4 4 may be pushed toward or away from each other upon the rods 5 5, and thus the device may be fitted to any size sheet or book of music.

Upon the lower ends of the side pieces 4 are attached rubber friction-tips !16, which prevent the music-holder from sliding along the ordinary music-rack of the piano when the lever 7 is pushed from one position to another at right angles thereto, as hereinafter described.

Upon the rods 5 5 I provide felt washers 17, which rest against the piano-rack and prevent any jarring or noise. It will therefore be seen that all points upon my device which come in contact with the piano rack are either of rubber or felt, and thus any noise or vibration is guarded against as well as rendering it impossible to scratch or in any way deface the instrument. 7

At each end of the side pieces 4 is a slot 18, formed to receive one of the felt washers 17. Thus it will be seen that if the wood (of which the side pieces 4 are preferably formed) should shrink or the rod become loose in the hole therein through which the rod 5 passes the felt washer would serve to hold the side piece firmly in the position in which it is placed upon the rods 5.

The device of my invention is operated as follows: The holder is placed upon the ordinary rack of a piano or organ, as shown in Fig. 1, with the clamps 6 thrown open, as the right-hand clamp is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Supposing the side pieces 4 to be at the proper distance apart, the sheet of music is then placed upon the ledge of the piano-rack between the fingers 13. Said fingers are then turned at right angles from the position shown on the right of Fig. 3 to the position shown at the left of said figure. When it is desired to turn a sheet, the fingers are thrown open and back again, being held open or closed by the spring 14.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 'ent, is

1. In a device for holding sheet-music, id combination, a pair of parallel rods 5, 5, a pair of parallel side pieces 4, 4, having slots 18 therein adjustable toward or away from each other upon said rods, and washers 17 upon said rods, engaging slots 18 in said side pieces, substantially as described for the purpose specjfi'ed.

2. In a music-holder, in combination, a pair of parallel rods 5, 5, a pair of parallel side pieces 4, 4, having slots 18 therein adjustable toward or away from each other upon said rods, one side piece having attachedthereto a clamp adapted to hold one side of a sheet of music, and washers 17 upon said rods, engaging slots 18 in said side pieces, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

3. In a music-holder, in combination, a pair of parallel rods 5, 5, a pair of parallel side pieces 4, 4, having slots 18 therein adjustable toward or away from each other, upon said rods, one side piece having a clamp adjustable longitudinally thereon, and Washers 17, upon said rods, engaging slots 18 in said side pieces, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

4. In a device for holding sheet-music, in combination, a pair of parallel rods 5, 5, a pair of parallel side pieces 4, 4, having slots nesses.

JACOB B. HENRY, Witnesses:

CHARLES S. GOODING, HARRY M. RUGG. 

